The Log Cabin mine, owned by the Kin-…

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tears will never be known, for in self-defense Mr. C. Bill pulled his gun and killed the Mexi- can. A coroner’s jury subsequently found the facts of the lamentable, to the Mexican, trans- action to be as stated above, and discharged Mr. C. Bill from custody. Kingston Shaft. The Log Cabin mine, owned by the Kin- ney’s, Johnson and Sly, is shipping its usual monthly output of one carload of high grade ore. ( 113 ) A Prospective Railroad The Detroit Copper Company, of Clifton, one of the most successful mining companies in the west, has closed down its smelters, owing to the exorbitant freight rates charged by the Arizona and New Mexico road. The Detroit company pays $7.50 per ton freight to Lords- burg from Pennsylvania, and is compelled to pay $10 per ton from Lordsburg to Clifton, a distance of 78 miles. The same rate is also charged on copper bars shipped out. The De- troit company has stood this outrageous tariff for years, but of late has concluded that there is more money in railroad building than in min- ing, and has therefore shut down the mine, and announces that it will soon commence build- ing a new railroad to Clifton. The company has ample means to build the road, and if the Arizona and New Mexico road does not come to time in freight rates, work will be com- menced on the new line.